@a_darkcorner @christoaivalis Yep. It’s a sex test, and it’s as important to ensuring fair competition in women’s sports as drug testing.
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Kyle Farquharson
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Kyle Farquharson
@kylefarq
Socialist, writer, educator, political analyst, climate activist, civil libertarian. #FreePalestine
Coast Salish land (Vancouver) Katılım Eylül 2011
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@kylefarq @christoaivalis Surprising to see this from your profile, but I guess there are dicks everywhere. Fuck off.
You should know that the test they want has nothing to do with gender, but you probably do.
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This has nothing to do with trans athletes, really.
It's about banning intersex athletes from the games, even if they are XX chromosomal females
This will be a major disaster, because I GUARANTEE you many athletes don't even know they are intersex
IOC MEDIA@iocmedia
The International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport. Read: olympics.com/ioc/news/inter…
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Capitalism has effectively created a world order in which all of humanity is subject to the whims of a single lunatic, and the cost of defiance is reckoned in thousands of human lives.
kev joon@never_oppressed
It is maddening that we live in a world where one state can do as it pleases in recklessly escalating conflicts into greater and greater wars, until the whole world is burning, and no one in the West is willing or capable of stopping them.
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@preta_6 There’s a more sinister dimension to this. The effect of innocuous-sounding newspeak terms like “unhoused” is to numb the public to terrible social realities that we shouldn’t accept.
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Saying "unhoused" rather than "homeless" is stupid.
Homeless people aren't out on the streets feeling offended over language. (Believe it or not, they have bigger issues to deal with.) Nor are we talking about a reasonable shift from a word like "bum" to the word "homeless," here.
There's nothing noble about going from "homeless" to "unhoused." The only reason a person says "unhoused" is because they're a privileged, virtue-signalling jerk. It makes the speaker feel better about themselves. It does nothing for homeless people.
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@ClaireMax I hereby award you a gold medal in the discipline of mental gymnastics.
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The only people who benefit from the (scientifically incorrect) argument that amab people will always be better at everything no matter what are the gross manosphere dudebros who think testosterone makes them gods. This type of thinking only contributes to the oppression of ALL women. if you are a c*s woman buying into this mentality, you are literally siding with the people who believe you don’t deserve basic human rights. You aren’t “protecting women in sports,” you are betraying them.
Signed, a c*s female athlete who is in no way threatened by trans women competing alongside me.
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Kyle Farquharson retweetledi
My friend and colleague @KarimHassoun_79 , who is one of the founding members of the Hind Rajab Foundation told me that, unsurprisingly, their Twitter account has been heavily suppressed
Please follow and boost their account
@HindRFoundation
They are doing amazing work
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@AnitaAnandMP @NATO @CanadianForces Your values clearly aren’t mine, minister. I frankly despise them.
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Today, @NATO confirmed that Canada has reached the Alliance’s 2% defence spending target.
This is a major step in our work to rebuild and rearm the @CanadianForces.
These transformative investments will help us protect our people and our values in a changing world. 🇨🇦
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I consider NYT journalists literal war criminals because of their inside knowledge and complicity in the deadly kidnapping raid on Venezuela. No surprise that they’re manufacturing consent for yet another US war crime.
☀️👀@zei_squirrel
the US Epstein regime are such depraved cowardly scum that they told all their troops to go run and hide in offices and hotels among local Arab babies, children and women, actually using them as human shields, the propaganda they spout to justify the mass murder of Palestinians, Lebanese and Iranians. Every accusation is a confession. And notice how the NYT Zionist propaganda rag launders this actual intentional mass use of human shielding as a totally logical, rational and justifiable act, "they were forced into offices and hotels!", and even an act of bravery: "Despite being hunted by the IRGC, they will continue the fight remotely!" The very same authors of that piece and the NYT and entire media class have written countless pieces crying about OMG KHAMAS HUMAN SHIELDS OMG KHEZBOLLAH HUMAN SHIELDS OMG OMG to justify the mass murder of babies. You cannot despise these sub-human scum enough.
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@LegalishCA @JesseBrown It's even worse than that. He's leveraging a fictitious persecution narrative in an effort to facilitate *real* oppression.
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This is a grotesque fraud. @JesseBrown is not oppressed in this country. He is a highly protected media insider using prestige platforms to turn criticism of genocide into a persecution narrative about himself and people like him. Sick stuff.
Jesse Brown@JesseBrown
I wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic about how Jews are being purged from public life. I call it the Polite Pogrom. theatlantic.com/international/…
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@AriDrennen Khelif's purported gender identity is completely irrelevant.
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The female boxer in the picture was never even a little bit transgender. We are living through a mass psychosis.
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling
Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.
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@phxsunz25 We also have many examples of categories that restrict entry to athletes with particular attributes—senior, junior, weight classes, amateur and pro, etc. None of them draws the hysteria that reliably erupts around every attempt to preserve the female category.
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What really kills me about this entire fabricated moral panic is nobody actually gives a shit about “physical advantages” in sports. In fact, we often celebrate them. Michael Phelps has an 80” wingspan and twice the lung capacity of the average human. Should he have been banned?
Brian Sutterer MD@BrianSuttererMD
I don’t think the sports world is ready for how many unexpected positive tests they are going to find if every athlete is tested. Especially anxious to see how this plays out in sports like women’s basketball, where genetic gender testing isn’t done If they are truly going to do genetic testing on every female athlete, guaranteed there will be unexpected positives that will have a major life impact in the athlete who may have had no idea.
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Kyle Farquharson retweetledi
You don't seem to understand international law. UNGA resolution 3314 explains that when a third country allows its territory to be used by another state to launch an attack, it crosses a legal line from "neutral bystander" to "accomplice."
Under Res. 3314, this specific scenario is addressed directly as an act of aggression:
"The action of a State in allowing its territory, which it has placed at the disposal of another State, to be used by that other State for perpetrating an act of aggression against a third State."
Now head to the UN library and do some reading. Or you can skim this:
thecradle.co/articles/inter…
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Well OK, except what Canadian Jewish supremacists want is to not be disturbed by protesters while holding auctions of illegally occupied land in their houses of worship.
Cameron Kasky@camkasky
Personally, if I didn’t want protesters outside my house of worship, I would probably not auction off other people’s land inside my house of worship.
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@GumptionAndCo Well-off members of our parents’ generation, mostly.
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This government is an absolute joke. Who elected these people?
Foreign Policy CAN@CanadaFP
Minister Anand announces additional sanctions against Iran Read full text here: canada.ca/en/global-affa…
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Kyle Farquharson retweetledi
Israel has just tried to kill the Pakistani ambassador in Tehran. It appears someone is trying to destroy all possible diplomacy channels. Again.
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“Defensive”=military action by Canada or its allies.
“Unprovoked”=military action by a designated enemy.
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
Canada shares its condolences with the UAE following the latest Iranian attack that took the lives of two civilians in Abu Dhabi. We strongly condemn Iran’s unprovoked attacks on the UAE and across the region, and reiterate the importance of opening secure access through the Strait of Hormuz. Canada supports efforts to safeguard international shipping and ensure freedom of navigation.
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Kyle Farquharson retweetledi
BREAKING: More than one million fighters in Iran have been prepared for a ground battle with the US, reports Tasnim news agency, citing an Iranian military source.
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Kyle Farquharson retweetledi
This is excellent reporting from Krystal Ball:
“One of the attacks on Bahrain that was blamed on Iran was actually an American Tomahawk missile.”
The US and Israel are conducting false flag attacks to drag the Gulf states into a wider war. The US will do the same thing at home to manufacture consent for an unpopular war. Stay vigilant!
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Good news for arms merchants and Washington, bad news for Canadians and the rest of humanity.
CTV News@CTVNews
Canada officially hits NATO 2% GDP target ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…
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Kyle Farquharson retweetledi
NEW: The IOC has banned transgender and DSD athletes from the female category at the Olympics. SRY screening to determine eligibility as well.
IOC president Kirsty Coventry: "It is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category"
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